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Author Aczel, Amir D.

Title The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed / Amir D. Aczel.

Publication Info. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2006]
©2006

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  510 ACZEL    Check Shelf
Description 239 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-218) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- 1. The disappearance -- 2. An arrest in Finland -- 3. Escape -- 4. Arrival in Paris -- 5. The general and the zeitgeist -- 6. When Braque met Picasso -- 7. The café -- 8. The achievements of Bourbaki -- 9. Bourbaki's reign -- 10. Claude Lévi-Strauss and the birth of structuralism -- 11. The linguistic origins -- 12. Structuralism in psychology, psychiatry, and economics -- 13. The literary group Oulip -- 14. Alexandre Grothendieck and the IHES -- 15. The death of Bourbaki and his legacy -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
Subject Bourbaki, Nicolas.
Mathematicians -- History.
Mathematics -- History.
ISBN 1560259310: $23.95
9781560259312
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